The Spectator at war: A German view of the war

From ‘The Military Situation’, The Spectator, 13 March 1915:

How does the war look as a whole? The best way to answer this question is to consider it from the point of view of some perfectly impartial person living in Germany, but with intellect and judgment unaffected by any patriotic emotions. What would such a person tell us of the war? Germany has been called a besieged country. With that epigram he would probably agree, except that he would add the word “partially.” He would say she was closely besieged on her water front and on the western and eastern fronts, even though in the east the besieged were capable of very powerful sorties. The southern front he would describe as still open, though admitting that the south-east section of that southern front was in danger of being closed as the result of the operations in the Dardanelles.